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art
Pronunciation: (ärt), [key]—
n.
1. the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
2. the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings:
a museum of art; an art collection.
3. a field, genre, or category of art:
Dance is an art.
4. the fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture:
art and architecture.
5. any field using the skills or techniques of art:
advertising art; industrial art.
6. (in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material:
Is there any art with the copy for this story?
7. the principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning:
the art of baking; the art of selling.
8. the craft or trade using these principles or methods.
9. skill in conducting any human activity:
a master at the art of conversation.
10. a branch of learning or university study, esp. one of the fine arts or the humanities, as music, philosophy, or literature.
11. arts,
a. (used with a sing. v.) the humanities:
a college of arts and sciences.
b. (used with a pl. v.) See
liberal arts.
12. skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature.
13. trickery; cunning:
glib and devious art.
14. studied action; artificiality in behavior.
15. an artifice or artful device:
the innumerable arts and wiles of politics.
16. Archaic.science, learning, or scholarship.
art
Pronunciation: (ärt), [key]—
v. Archaic.
2nd pers. sing. pres. indic. of
be. Art
Pronunciation: (ärt), [key]—
n.
a male given name, form of
Arthur. ART
Ling.
article: often used to represent the class of determiners, including words such as
this, that, and
some as well as the articles
a, an, and
the.-art
var. of
-ard: braggart.art.
—pl. arts. for 1.
1. article; articles.
2. artificial.
3. artillery.
4. artist.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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- art (Encyclopedia)
